We all know that SunshinePHP is one of the PHP communities finest conferences. It attends an amazing group of people, wonderful speakers and Rasmus usually pops in for a drive-by-keynote. Every conference Phil or Ben attend has some vague promise of "yeah we'll probably try and do a recording there or something," but this SunshinePHP we actually did it, all thanks to the wonderful Sammy K off of PHP Roundtable.

Link: http://phptownhall.com/blog/2015/02/07/episode-37-round-hall-sunshine/]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:40:41 -0600http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22354http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22354
The PHP Town Hall podcast has release the latest episode today - Episode #36: PSR-7 and the World of Tomorrow. In it hosts Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds are joined by Hari KT and Matthew Weier O'Phinney to discuss the PSR-7 HTTP message proposal currently in the works by the PHP-FIG.

Now PSR chats can be a little boring when its about autoloading or tabs v bloody spaces, but this PSR could have some really big impact on the way you write PHP over the next few years. We talk a bunch about Aura and Zend and their plans around middlewares, what motivated Matthew to get involved with taking over PSR-7, what middlewares mean for PHP in general and some of the concerns that have been fixed in recent iterations of the PSR like mutability, streams, etc. There also a bit of chat about turtles, standing desks and broken ribs, while Phil slowly goes loopy on pain killers.

Link: http://phptownhall.com/blog/2015/01/09/episode-35-developer-to-cto-and-back/]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:23:59 -0600http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22222http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22222
The latest PHP Town Hall podcast has officially been posted, Episode #34 - a /Dev/Hell Mashup but hosts Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds. The /Dev/Hell podcast is hosted by two other PHP community members Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler.

This is a big one. We've had Chris "The Grumpy Programmer" Hartjes and Ed "The Grumpy Podcaster" Finkler on our show before, but this time they both join us for a mashup! We talk about the perils of being opinionated people speaking in public. Chris basically just says fuck Reddit and all of its minions of evil, and Phil gives a bit of insight into why he gets stuck in so many arguments.

We move on to chatting about PHP, and how people feel about a strong new demand for more async features. Is it better to leave that to other tools, or should we try and fit some into the language itself, and the ecosystem around it? The last chunk of this podcast ends with a discussion around CodeIgniter 3.0 supporting PHP 5.2 and up. Should it be higher?

Link: http://phptownhall.com/blog/2015/01/09/episode-34-dev-hell-mashup/]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:20:00 -0600http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21931http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21931
The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode today, Episode #32 in which Ben and Phil catch up with each other after a while of being too busy to record.

This week Ben and Phil take some time to catch up on each others lives and let you listen in. Ben doesn't remember how to code. Phil is leaving PHP for Rails. They're both moving again.

Link: http://phptownhall.com//blog/2014/10/16/episode-31-the-one-about-hot-dogs/]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:33:05 -0500http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21628http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21628
The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode today with hosts Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds with a few special guests: "Specs, Implementations, and New Engines OH MY!"

This week Ben and Phil are joined by core PHP developer extraordinaires Andrea Faulds and Levi Morrison. We discuss the new PHP engine spec, various RFCs, and all things internals. Also PHP 6 is officially dead, let's have a moment of silence.

Paul has recently been talking a lot about "Action Domain Responder" which is billed as a more representative replacement of the often mis-used "Model View Controller" architecture. Luckily he does a good job of ELI5 so we don't get too lost, and we talk a bit about how ADR helps with putting content negotiation in a logical place. Daniel then goes on to talk about a few awesome topics, including some of the OpenSSL changes in 5.6, and a HTTP server he is working on built entirely from PHP. It's async, non-blocking and web-scale.

Link: http://phptownhall.com//blog/2014/07/30/episode-29-dont-mention-php-6-v-php-7/]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:04:17 -0500http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21423http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21423
The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode, the mashup with the Loosely Coupled podcast they did (it's here on their side) talking about their favorite open source projects.

In this episode, Ben and Phil join forces with Loosely Coupled to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff was out of action for a lot of it due to unexpected wifi troubles (in San Francisco of all places) so he sadly did not get to take part as much as he would have liked.

There were also a few questions taken from the listening audience about dealing with overly reliant people, explaining OSS to non-tech people and the OSS "clauses" some employer put into their contracts. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the live video recording posted on YouTube.

Link: http://phptownhall.com/blog/2014/07/10/episode-28-loosley-coupled-mashup/]]>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:39:19 -0500http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21376http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/21376
The Loosely Coupled podcast has released their version of their collaboration show with the PHP Town Hall podcast in Episode #6, "PHPTownHall Mashup".

In this episode, Matt and Jeff join forces with PHPTownHall to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff had a spell of bad luck with the wifi at the AirBnB he stayed at in San Franciso, so you may not get as much of him as you'd like. If you've not checked out PHPTownHall, you can do so here PHPTownHall.